The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

THREE new cases of yellow fever ap-
peared in Key West, Fla, on the 18th and
one death occurred.
THE turpentine distillery of Hilliard Good
win in Lexington County, s. c., was de-
stroyed by fire the other night. Thomas
Graffin, the distiller, and a negro laborer
were burned to ashes.
Four persons were fatally and seriously
injured during a recent Wild West perform
ance at Clinton, Iowa, owing to one Of the
cowboys pistols being loaded with bullets
by some mistake
TIE eight-inch guns on the new steel
cruiser Atlanta have an excessive recoiL
dangerous to the men working them In
a recent trial near Brooklyn the decks
were torn up and sheep killed. The sheep
had been tied near the gun for expert
ment,
A 'HAIL CYCLONE was reported recently
as having passed through the country near
Wabash, Ind. The heavy hail stones cut
swath two or three miles wide for consid-
cradle distance, destroying every thing.
FURTHER cuts IN freight rates TO points in
Texas were made in ST. Louis on the Goth.
The cuts were led by the Atchison, Topeka
4 Santa Fe.
A BILL taxing wine rooms $4,000 has
passed the Georgia House by the requisite
majority 1t was thought that the Senate
would pass it also.
THE ticket boycott question has been
passed upon by the Interstate Commission.
A majority of the Commission was OF the
opinion that Objectionable tickets might
lawfully be turned to the wall, otherwise
boycotted.
IT has transpired that 125 Of the Third
Avenue New York; Car Company's horses
were poisoned by cyanide of potassium, in
stead of twenty, as was first stated. TWen-
ty-nine died.
AIRY a. Co, of New Orleans, got caught
in the recent cotton break. Other firms
were reported IN difficulties.
THE Chicago express on the Erie road
suddenly turned curve near Allendale,
N. V, on the 2lst and dashed into crowd
of laborers, fatally mangling ten or twelve
of them. The express was one hour behind
time and the men were at work on the
track not the least apprehensive of danger.
THE extensive bark extract works of j.
S. Young q Co., Baltimore. Md, were
burned the other night with the stock and
machinery. Loss, $3.50 GOO; fully insured.
THE bodies of six Swiss tourists, lost re-
Gently while attempting to ascend the
Jungfrau without the assistance of guides,
have been recovered. They were found at
the bottom of a precpice.
MRS W. r. MILLS, her two daughters
and sister-in-law went into the lake near
Kingston, Ont, the other night to bathe.
One of the daughters got beyond her depth
and the others went to her rescue. The re-
suit was that all except the younger
daughter were drowned.
BILL JOHNSON, desperado, after killing
a man at Mineola, Tex, recently, took to
the woods. He was tracked by hounds
and a posse. He shot three hounds and a
deputy, hut was finally captured and
promptly lynched.
TWENTY-FIVE deaths from cholera oc-
CURED at Catania, Italy, on the 21st. The
people were panic stricken.
THERE was a report received in London
on the 2lst that Explorer Stanley had been
killed by hostile natives in Africa. The re-
port was discredited because Of the round
about way it was received and its geograph-
ical disconnection.
GAMBRINUs Assembly, Knights of Labor,
Milwaukee, Wis, has withdrawn from the
order on account of Powderly's temperance
proclivities.
A REPORT has been received in Cairo that
a tribe friendly to Egypt attacked the Nah
dists under Osman Digna, near Kassala. re-
Gently, and that heavy fighting ensued,
during which 1900 men were killed.
The st. Thomas, Ont, railroad disaster,
IL was alleged was due to the intoxication
of the engineer and fireman,